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Discussion of George Gillespie's Wholesome Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty
WF: QUESTIONS F 
Subject: WF: QUESTIONS F
From: mark.arvid.johnson@chrysalis.org
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 97 14:30:54 -0500


Rev. Paul Armes  said:

->In comment to the below posted I am drawn to think of Paul the
->Apostle's command to Titus to reject a heretic after the second
->admonition.  This sounds to me like excommunication from the church.
->Therefore the sanction would be refusal of the table along with the
->judgment of being put outside the visible church which means exclusion
->from heaven!  Paul is not appealing to the civil magistrate in this
->instance.  Why not?  

One possible reason is that Paul was addressing Titus, a pastor who 
controlled access to the table of the LORD, not a magistrate who bore 
the sword. Simply put, perhaps Paul does not appeal to the magistrate 
because he is not speaking to a magistrate.

Mark Arvid Johnson

We are men and would have laws.
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